Date: 1726, 1753

"Vast sea of exstacy, that drowns the mind! / That fierce transfusion of exchanging hearts!"

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1726, 1753

"Love, in a chain of converse, bound mankind, / And polish'd, and awak'd the rugged mind."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1726, 1753

"But I have err'd; and, with delirious aim, / Would picture motion, and imprison flame. / He, who can light'ning's flash, to colours, bind, / May paint love's influence, on the burning mind."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: 1726, 1753

"Heedless of fortune then look down on state, / Balanced within by reason's conscious weight"

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750); Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Date: 1726, 1753

"Divinely proud of independent will, / Prince of your passions, live their sovereign still."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750); Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Date: 1726, 1775

"Thro' ev'ry tender tube they rove, / In finer spirits strike the brain; / Wind quick thro' ev'ry fibrous grove, / And seek, thro' pores, the heart again."

— Savage, Richard (1697/8-1743)

Date: 1727

"E'en Light itself, which every thing displays, / Shone undiscover'd, till [Newton's] brighter mind / Untwisted all the shining robe of day."

— Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Date: 1727

"But each Man's secret Standard in his Mind, / That casting Weight, Pride adds to Emptiness"

— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

Date: 1727

"Death's cold Hand arrests the Fears / That haunt the Coward's Mind"

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)

Date: 1727

"[T]umultuous Whims to Faction prone" may justle "Monarch Reason from her Throne"

— Somervile, William (1675-1742)